Environmental Organizations

Directories

In writing Blessed Unrest Paul Hawken has created WiserEarth, a database of thousands of grassroots organizations all over the world. You can search it to find some related to your issue. It contains many thousands of organizations who are working on social and environmental justice, as well as related concerns (short video explain this).

World-Changing.com has many organizations and solutions to environmental and developmental problems. Video overview from TEDtalk

Searchable database of organizations working on environmental and related issues (see also Wiserearth above)

A list of larger environmental groups working in California.

A list of small environmental groups working in the Sierra Nevada

A portal to environmental organizations in California

Environmentaldirectory.net helps you search for any type of environmental organization.

The Environmental Defense Fund

NRDCfocuses on controversial issues, especially in California; describes legal action taken

Environmentcalifornia.org is an environmental organization that has information on news and the organization's causes.

Earthisland.org develops and supports projects that counteract environmental threats. Issues: sustainable development, biodiversity, restoration

The Sierra Club is a national, state, and regional environmental organization

Surfrider Foundation: coastal, pollution, and surfing concerns for CA beaches